The A-130 is the foundational document for all federal information policy. So when the Office of Management and Budget put out a draft of the first A-130 revision in 15 years in October, the proposed changes were parsed carefully. Comments filed on GitHub by the Dec. 5 deadline show that cloud vendors and trade groups are worried that the document doesn’t adequately promote the government’s avowed “cloud first” policy, and that it requires redundant levels of approval for agencies seeking to move development, operations, and data to a virtual environment.
Dave Wennergren of the Professional Services Council hoped that a revised A-130 would “more explicitly promote the importance of commercial cloud solutions as a means of replacing aging infrastructure, reducing operating costs, providing greater access to modern applications and improving agency cybersecurity posture.”
